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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Michael R Rose |
| ISBN: | 0691012172 9780691012179 |
| OCLC Number: | 38438615 |
| Description: | x, 233 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Darwin: The reluctant revolutionary -- Heredity: The problem variation -- Selection: Nature red in tooth and claw -- Evolution: The tree of life -- Agriculture: Malthus postponed -- Medicine: Dying of ignorance -- Eugenics: Promethean Darwinism -- Origins: From baboons to archbishops -- Psyche: Darwinism meets film noir -- Society: Ideology as biology -- Religion: The spectre haunting. |
| Responsibility: | Michael R. Rose. |
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Abstract:
Provides general readers with an introduction to the theory of evolution: its beginning with Darwin, its key concepts, and how it may affect us in the future. There is a brief biographical sketch of Darwin and a primer on three concepts in evolutionary theory: variation, selection and adaptation.
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Ironically, Rose evokes the image of a hovering Darwinian ghost in this altogether rational, absorbing account of the past 150 years of Darwinism.... He makes an excellent case for the importance of evolutionary biology to all of science. Read more...
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